Archive / Chronology
Chronology
Selected milestones, kept concise and linked to the institutional records used to verify them.
1958Born in Riga, Latvia.
Late 1970sBegins photographing.
1983Begins My Country People.
1984–88Member of the Ogre photo studio led by Egons Spuris.
1998Hasselblad Foundation grant.
1999My Country People represents Latvia at the 48th Venice Biennale; Spīdola Award.
2000Begins People I Happened to Meet.
2003Joint exhibition and publication with Egons Spuris; Artists’ Union of Latvia Prize of the Year.
2004Begins Amālijas iela 5a.
2006Begins Neighbours.
2008–09Amalias Street 5a, Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
2025LTV broadcasts Garainis. Inta Ruka un Vladimirs Glušenkovs.
Moderna Museet chronology (opens another website) LTV REplay (opens another website)
Earlier and later milestones
1986First listed solo exhibition, Kiek in de Kök, Tallinn.
1988–89Exhibits with Andrejs Grants at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.
1991Included in Comrades & Cameras, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
2006Included in In the Face of History, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
2007Contemporary Art from Latvia, European Central Bank, Frankfurt.
2025The Photographer from Riga, Borås Konstmuseum.
2026Places Called Home, Fotografiska Tallinn.
Moderna Museet biography and exhibition history (opens another website)